Cylon357's Hernia repair - Intro
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, 02-26-2019 at 11:51 AM (6991 Views)
I'll be posting the details, observations and other (almost certainly boring) information about my hernia repair. But first, a little history...
I had Lumpy (my hernia) for about 25 or 30 years or so. It was a ventral / umbilical hernia (the doc used both terms) centered about an inch above my navel and about a half inch to the right. It was maybe 3/4 of an inch in diameter. It normally didn't cause me any problems but would occasionally get irritated. Most of the time (at least in the past couple of years), my body fat percentage has been in the 20%+ range, so it wasn't even visible. When I got leaner and flexed my abs, you could see it. I'm a desk jockey so it never impacted my work but did sometimes mess with my workouts.
About 2 weeks ago, I irritated it doing my dead lift warm ups. Nothing bad or anything and it didn't really impact the rest of my workout. It was enough to make me think 'well sh!t, I guess I need to go ahead and fix this.' I had discussed fixing it with a good surgeon about two years prior but held off at that time. Something about surgery freaked me out. Still don't like the idea of surgery in general but wanting to get stronger and in better shape, especially now being on HRT, made me decide to remove Lumpy as an obstacle.
I'll be posting daily info, experience, etc as replies to this post.